Summarize Parsons’s points from Sex Roles in the American Kinship System. Explain which points were criticized by later scholars and why.
What will be an ideal response?
In the 1970s Sex Roles in the American Kinship System came to epitomize Parsons’s conservatism, interpreted as it was as an explicit endorsement by Parsons of traditional gender roles and the dire consequences that would ensue should they be breeched. Feminists were particularly incensed by Parsons’s assertion that “many women succumb to . . . dependency cravings through such channels as neurotic illness or compulsive domesticity” which leads them to “abdicate both their responsibilities and their opportunities for genuine independence” (1943:194). In addition, they found Parsons’s assumption that “surely the pattern of romantic love which makes his relation to the ‘woman he loves’ the most important single thing in a man’s life, is incompatible with the view that she is an inferior creature, fit only for dependency on him” especially naïve.
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